Re: New issue of TCB: Technical Services in Religion & Theology

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_ND.EDU>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:48:49 -0400
To: ACQNET_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG
On Oct 28, 2022, at 11:15 AM, Christa Strickler <cstrick5_at_nd.edu> wrote:

> In this case, open access means that TCB is published free online without any charges for accessing the content. There is no API of which I'm aware, so yes, you would have to do a lot of clicking if you wanted to access all of the content. 


Upon further investigation, I have learned that this title, TCB, is published using a publishing system called Open Journal Systems (OJS), and OJS supports a protocol called OAI-PMH. Sending various OAI-PMH "commands" to TCB returns metadata such as authors, titles, dates, etc. For example:

  https://serials.atla.com/index.php/tcb/oai/?verb=Identify
  https://serials.atla.com/index.php/tcb/oai/?verb=ListSets
  https://serials.atla.com/index.php/tcb/oai/?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:serials.atla.com:article/143

That metadata can be cached, processed, and then used to harvest the remote PDF files. Hmmm... Let me see if I can apply my acquisitions skills to do this work....

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Eric Morgan
University of Notre Dame

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Received on Fri Oct 28 2022 - 11:59:22 EDT